I find the appointment of student senators by the SFUO problematic and inconsistent with the by-laws. The Senate By-law on Composition of the Senate states that “one full-time student elected by his peers in each of the Faculties of the University of Ottawa and one student for the two sections in Law; the method of election and the period of mandate to be determined by resolution of the Senate.” As such, the Senate representatives should be elected by students of the respective faculty.

No shit. It is a strict rule of all legislative or governing assemblies that the assembly’s by-laws cannot be over-ridden by a vote of the assembly or any other arrangement. The by-laws must be changed if the SFUO wants to do this legally. That’s how representative democracy assemblies work.